In message <20021218142059.0ff9798b.ggm@apnic.net>, George Michaelson writes:
>So, from the general "big file I/O makes it slow" I'm  honing in on "X is
>really not good in the jobmix here". -Is this maybe something fixable in X, or
>in the way I run X? I self-compiled from /usr/xsrc.

FWIW, my system having this problem is a P4 2Ghz with 640MB.
Mozilla cannot coexist with, say, cvs update... but that's ridiculous,
because even if Mozilla is taking 100MB of memory, I should be able to eke out
an existance with only a couple hundred MB of disk cache.

-s